Monday, March 11, 2019

Benefits of Racial Integration

Muhammad Rasheed - Because of the body of my editorial cartoon work and its focus on the anti-racism cause, I'll often get comments from white people that sound similar to, "Hey, I looked at your cartoons, man. You really, really, really hate white people. It's palpable. And honestly, I understand. I'd probably hate white people too, if I were black."

To be clear, I 100% do NOT hate white people. That actually wouldn't be fair to hate the descendants of the ethnic tribes of Europe for literally no other reason than because of that. I don't subscribe to that mindset at all.

What I DO hate is the White Supremacist Ideology and the anti-Black systemic racism for which it stands. THAT mess has to go. Sometimes I encounter hostile white people (and sometimes their Black lackeys) who won't or can't separate "white people" from "white supremacy" and I get that ole "M. Rasheed hates ALL whiteys!!!" type of talk, which is the nature of the conflict. For you, Dear Reader, I ask that you work harder to see the clear difference and do not put me in that narrow box.

I absolutely do not hate you just because you are white. Calm down and redirect that misplaced butthurt energy towards something more useful, like dismantling anti-Black systemic racism, please. Thank you.

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About Me

"I see the world as a multi-layered, encrypted message—encrypted for countless reasons, by numerous sources. I believe our job as actively-engaged humans is to decode these messages for our own use and to document them for the greater body of human literature at the means each individual has at hand. As an artist—specifically, a cartoonist—that is the means/medium I use for my own decoding duties. Through my research, I use logic, reason and intellect to intuitively follow the knowledge thread that intrigues me, connecting the dots from pattern recognition, and producing the cartoons that form my socio-political analysis."